The theme for Caplin’s Winter Hackday 2022 was ‘Bringing it all together’, meaning to take any of our existing stack, products, and tools, and see what synergies we could produce. The WeatherVanes team (Mike and Marcus) ...Read More
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Hack Day XVII – It’s My Bank In A Box!
Caplin runs a biannual internal hack day competition for employees to work on fun projects and spike new ideas for future products. For this hack day our team comprised Lukmann Butt, Ed Pratt and myself. ...Read More
Reimagining Margin Administration – Summer Hack Day 2022
For this season's hack day our team, Jack Cusack, Harry Hornby and myself, decided to focus on reducing the complexity and improving the transparency of price administration of an FX trading system without reducing or restricting the functionality, and having any ...Read More
Pass the Remote – Hack Day 2021
Module Federation is a new feature in webpack 5 that allows you to pull dependencies from external sources. Correctly configured, those imports can be dynamic, shared between multiple apps, and pull in any kind of module (utility, component or feature). What’s ...Read More
Hack Day 2019: WhatsApp trading and chat
Caplin held its 2019 hack day on the 8th of November. The theme was ‘Talking with Robosaurs’, and encouraged projects with a focus on AI, chat and messaging. Focusing on the messaging theme, Adam Iley, Andy Lyons, and Andy Voneshen grouped ...Read More
Hack Day 2019: Jenny the Support bot
The theme for Hackday XI was 'Talking with Robosaurs' - a focus on artificial intelligence and communication. We created a team from our crack Support desk squad- Toby Catlin, Tom Brook and Andy Fernandes. ...Read More
Hack Day 2019: release notes linter
Caplin's 2019 Hack Day was held on Thursday 8 November. This year’s theme was ‘Talking With Robosaurs’, and contestants were encouraged to focus their projects on AI or chat-ops. For my project this year, I created an online release-notes linter, to ...Read More
Hack Day 2018 – Algebros Algorithmic Trading
Hack Day 2018 was themed 'Power to the People', which offered a broad spectrum for interpretation. Enter team Algebros, the dynamic trio of Tom Pitts, Bodrul Alam and Jack Cusack. Our mission: to give power to the people - ...Read More
Hack Day 2018: GRAFICAL DUDEZZ
Hack Day 2018 was centred around giving ‘Power to the People’ -- offering users a more hands-on approach to application configuration that hides complexity. The Caplin Deployment Framework (DFW) manages the deployment of ...Read More
Hack Day 2018: Improving Caplin’s website search
For Caplin Hack Day 2018, 'Power to the People', I set myself the challenge of empowering our users by improving our website's internal search engine. ...Read More